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Deathcaps at Lough Cullin đŽđĒ
Happy Fungi Friday! An interesting find on a visit to Mayo in Ireland this week. September is a good month for deathcaps, and so it showed. The first thing I saw was this upturned mushroom cap, which I went to inspect. You can see the remnants of a veil at the edges of the underside. Read more
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Twitten boletes
Happy Fungi Friday! đ The weather has felt a little more autumnal in recent days. So I wasn’t surprised to see one of the summer boletes, despite their hard location. What a mess eh? You can see the pores here on the underside of the gap, a key feature of bolete and similar fungi. The Read more
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Car park amanitas đ ŋī¸
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Friday 26th July, 2024 Today I was out and about and spotted a tranche of Amanita mushrooms on a car park verge. This is my first sighting of proper summer shrooms, and I think they’re the grey-spotted Amanitas which are potentially a couple of different sub species. Photos are with my Read more
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Tawny grisette in June
This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland. This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo above shows birch woodland, which Read more
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Disco jelly đĒŠ
I’ve not been in fungi mode this week and have spent most of the time in an office. But today I noticed this little gathering of what might be lemon disco on a bench under an oak tree. I’ve found this to be a common and consistently urban fungus. It will grow on fences (this Read more
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June mushrooms on Box Hill
I walked a loop of the famous Box Hill on the North Downs today. There wasn’t a lot to set the heart racing (that’s the hill’s job!) but a couple of things did crop up. Photos are taken with my Pixel 7a. Early on in the walk there was a patch of what are probably Read more
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